Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa’s news website Rappler won an appeal to restore its corporate licence after a court overturned a regulator’s decision to shutter the media company.

Tokyo, Japan.japan.earthquake.By Natsuko FUKUE..Japan's earthquake scientists have warned of the possibility of a coming "megaquake" after eight people were injured Thursday by one of magnitude 7.1 in the south

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered his "best wishes" to Bangladesh's newly sworn-in interim leader Muhammad Yunus on Thursday, saying New Delhi was "committed" to working with neighbouring Dhaka

Former chief minister of West Bengal and veteran Communist leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee died today at his south Kolkata residence at the age of 80

Sri Lanka’s ruling party nominated a scion of the controversial Rajapaksa family yesterday to challenge the incumbent president in next month’s polls, the first since the country’s unprecedented economic meltdown.

This comes amid reports that Hasina may travel there to seek asylum

India remains deeply concerned till law and order is visibly restored in Bangladesh and it is monitoring the status of minorities following the resignation and fleeing of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, India's Minister for External Affairs S Jaishankar said

India's top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi today asked the Indian government about the potential involvement of foreign actors in the developments of Bangladesh that led to the resignation of the Sheikh Hasina-led government

India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today spoke at an all-party meeting in the Parliament House in New Delhi on the developments in Bangladesh, a day after Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled following countrywide student protests that escalated into an anti-government movement, killing hundreds

Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister, Imran Khan, who blames the military for his ouster and 12-month-old imprisonment on what he calls trumped-up charges, said on Sunday it would be “foolish” not to have an excellent relationship with the army.

India has advised all its nationals to avoid travelling to Bangladesh until further notice due to ongoing violence here

US President Joe Biden expressed hope Iran would stand down despite its threat to avenge the assassination of Hamas’ leader in Tehran, as fears mounted that Israel’s offensive in Gaza could escalate into a wider Middle East conflict.

A Myanmar ethnic minority armed group said Saturday it had captured a regional military command after weeks of clashes, in what would be a major blow to the junta.

Director General of India's Border Security Force (BSF) Nitin Agrawal and his deputy Special DG (West) YB Khurania were removed and sent back to their state cadres, according to a government order

A fire ripped through a building in the Philippine capital’s Chinatown early yesterday killing 11 people, authorities said.

Myanmar military airstrikes hit a hospital in a city controlled by an ethnic minority armed group close to the China border killing 10 people, local media reported yesterday.

Floods brought by torrential rains in Pakistan caused damage that killed at least 30 people this week, authorities said yesterday, as the second-largest city of Lahore was drenched in the most rainfall it has received in more than four decades.

Japan sweltered through its hottest July since records began 126 years ago, the weather agency said, as extreme heatwaves fuelled by climate change engulfed many parts of the globe

Torrential rains in China have killed at least 30 people and left dozens more missing, state media said yesterday, as the country grinds through another summer of extreme weather.

The death toll in the devastating landslides in India's Kerala's Wayanad district shot up to 276 today, the Indian media reported